{"id":10398,"date":"2011-03-29T00:36:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T04:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2011-03-29T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:10:31","slug":"what-wendy-wore-doing-the-taliban-shuffle-pantless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/what-wendy-wore-doing-the-taliban-shuffle-pantless\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Doing the Taliban Shuffle, Pantless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, MrB and I went to our gorgeous friend Kim Barker&#8217;s book party. The New York Times raved about Kim&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taliban-Shuffle-Strange-Afghanistan-Pakistan\/dp\/0385533314\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1301371150&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Taliban Shuffle<\/a>, calling it &#8220;&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/15\/books\/the-taliban-shuffle-by-kim-barker-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">hilarious and harrowing, witty and illuminating, all at the same time<\/a>.&#8221; So buy it now!<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure what to wear that night. I considered a plain black dress with my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/spotted-my-birthdayholiday-gift-from-mrb\/\" target=\"_blank\">big leopard bag<\/a> so that I could finally take an outfit picture with the latter. But I decided the bag was so enormous that was unsuitable for a cocktail party. While I&#8217;d be able to stash whole trays of pigs-in-blankets in the bag &#8212; and I do love a pig in a blanket &#8212; I feared I would send people&#8217;s wineglasses crashing to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>I looked in the recesses of my closet for something I hadn&#8217;t worn in a while. That brought me to two Ossie Clark dress-tunic-shirt-things that I feel are too short. I&#8217;ve previously worn them <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/great-minds-think-alikeabout-ossie-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\">with tights, with bare legs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/living-high-on-ihog-in-latex\/\" target=\"_blank\">with shiny leggings<\/a>, but was never truly happy with the look. I thought a pair of black jeggings might be the answer but when I tried the combo, I hated it. I like dresses with pants on other people but not on me. I switched back to opaque tights and pondered my reflection unhappily. Then I thought, &#8220;Why am I even worrying?&#8221; I&#8217;d just come back from <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/what-wendy-wore-a-week-in-south-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miami<\/a> where women were wearing scraps of spandex that barely covered their chimichanga regions. Could my outfit be more offensive than what I&#8217;d experienced for a week? I doubted it. So off I went, even though I felt like I was missing my pants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10399\" title=\"ossiemarch2011\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ossiemarch2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ossiemarch2011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ossiemarch2011-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What Wendy Wore<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Dress-tunic-shirt-thing:<\/strong> Vintage <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/ossie-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ossie Clark<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Tights:<\/strong> Can&#8217;t remember<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Boots:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/prada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prada<\/a> (2008)<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Ring:<\/strong> My own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Onyx-Skull-Ring\" target=\"_blank\">onyx skull design<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Lip color:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/red-lipstick-1-macs-lasting-lust\/\" target=\"_blank\">The usual<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Separately, gorgeous blogger Collette of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statementsinfashion.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Statements in Fashion<\/a> picked me for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statementsinfashion.net\/2011\/03\/twitter-tuesday-wb-babay.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter Tuesday feature<\/a> so go visit and leave her a nice comment. And thanks, Collette! I&#8217;m very honored! Also, Luxury Daily wrote about my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxurydaily.com\/wendy-brandes-goes-with-facebook-for-jewelry-ecommerce\/\" target=\"_blank\">use of Facebook for e-commerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, MrB and I went to our gorgeous friend Kim Barker&#8217;s book party. The New York Times raved about Kim&#8217;s book, The Taliban Shuffle, calling it &#8220;&#8230;hilarious and harrowing, witty and illuminating, all at the same time.&#8221; So buy it now! I wasn&#8217;t sure what to wear that night. I considered a plain black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/what-wendy-wore-doing-the-taliban-shuffle-pantless\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,48,277,41,27,559,497],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-ossie-clark","9":"category-outfit-post","10":"category-pictures-of-me","11":"category-prada","12":"category-the-wendyb-pose","13":"category-what-wendy-wore","14":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10412,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}